recurve
IPA: rikˈɝv
noun
- A type of knife blade shape that involves several curves including a concave curve on a portion of the edge, resulting in a belly that is lower than the handle bottom.
- A recurve bow.
- A landform consisting of a hook at the tip of a coastal spit.
verb
- To curve again, to rebend.
- To curve back on itself.
- (of a storm) To change direction.
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Examples of "recurve" in Sentences
- They are depicted with recurve bows.
- The minute apex is slightly recurved.
- The fingers are elongated and recurved.
- A longbow is not significantly recurved.
- In this species these are highly recurved.
- Instead, it recurved east and made landfall.
- It's going to recurve north and hurt no one.
- Emmy recurved back to the northwest on the 26th.
- It also began to recurve to the north and then the northeast.
- There, it moved to the northwest, then recurved to the northeast.
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